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There are 22 million people in Australia. (Pop Upade: 24 million 2016) We Aussies might have the reputation of being tough individuals who can open stubbies with our teeth and wrestle crocodiles. But we Aussies aren’t rugged folk. We cling to life in the cities and we couldn’t survive for 3 days in the desert without a latte. If we got lost in the wilderness we’d only survive if we could light a fire by rubbing 2 iPhones together.

We Aussies are ever so slightly spooked by the greatness and vastness of our Red Centre. There aren’t many people out there. You can drive for days without seeing a Macdonald’s. And, anyone you meet in the red centre is, according to some movies, an unshaven, axe-wielding psychopath. No wonder we stay put in the cities. Being city dwellers, however, we can’t quite grasp the size of Australia. So how big is Australia?

The area of Australia is 7, 686, 850 sq km. You’ll find more info @ Nationmaster

Here mathspigs are some interesting comparisons using areas in sq km although the unit doesn’t matter, of course as long as you keep using the same one. These calcs ignore the shapes. It is a straight area calculation.

Australia = 0.78 USAAustralia = 0.81 China

Australia = 11.0 Texas’s

We often say bigger than Texas in Australia. This is ironic as one of our states

West Australia = 3.63 Texas’s. I can’t imagine saying bigger than West Australia. Maybe it had something to do with the size of those cowboy hats.Australia = 25.5 Italys Australia = 28.6 New Zealands

After all of the jokes we make about New Zealand it isn’t that small!!!!! It is bigger, for instance, than UK. Australia = 31.4 UKsAustralia = 58.26 GreecesAustralia = 185 Netherlands

Australia = 856 Yellowstone National Parks

In fact, one of our National Parks Kakadu is 20,000 sq km. This makes it the second largest National Park in the world (Greenland wins!) and

Kakadu = 2.2 Yellowstone National Parks

Australia = 128,114 Manhattans

Australia = 3, 843, 425 Monacos

This statistic is particularly amusing. The population of Australia is approx 22 million. (24 m in 2016) Divide this figure by the number of Monacos and we have 6 people per princedom. Every family in Australia could, theoretically, have it’s own principality!!!!